GHSA approves Muscogee County’s reclassification appeal. Here’s what to know.
The Muscogee County School District appealed the Georgia High School association’s reclassification assignments to several Columbus-area public schools, the district announced Tuesday afternoon.
The district’s approved suggestion places seven Muscogee County Schools in the same region. The original Georgia High School Association alignments announced on Nov. 5 would have placed the eight Muscogee County high schools in four different athletic classifications.
“This will greatly reduce the amount of travel these schools will have for region competition and it will guarantee that most Muscogee County Schools are competing against each other in all sports,” the district said in an email.
The GHSA’s reclassification committee heard appeals about classification placements on Tuesday. The following are the proposed regions from the November 12 reclassification committee meeting.
Region 2-AAAA will have nine teams, seven from Muscogee County and two from Troup County.
The region will consist of:
- Carver (up from 3A)
- Columbus High
- Hardaway
- Jordan (up from 2A)
- Kendrick (up from 3A)
- LaGrange
- Shaw
- Spencer (up from 2A)
- Troup County
Northside was moved to region 2-AAAAA (from 6A).
The committee set the next meeting for Tuesday, November 19 at 9:00 a.m., in the GHSA office. Appeals for schools wishing a region transfer will be heard at that meeting along with any appeals from schools whose request to move up from 1A to 2A was denied.
This story was originally published November 12, 2019 at 5:41 PM.
